US20080246616A1 - Media case and circuit pattern sheet - Google Patents

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US20080246616A1
US20080246616A1 US12/039,323 US3932308A US2008246616A1 US 20080246616 A1 US20080246616 A1 US 20080246616A1 US 3932308 A US3932308 A US 3932308A US 2008246616 A1 US2008246616 A1 US 2008246616A1
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    • G11B33/0405—Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon modified to store record carriers for storing discs
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65D85/54—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles of special shape not otherwise provided for
    • B65D85/544—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles of special shape not otherwise provided for for gramophone records
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/067—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components
    • G06K19/07—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H01Q1/22—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
    • H01Q1/2208—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/36—Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewith
    • H01Q1/38—Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewith formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support

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  • the present invention relates to a media case, and a circuit pattern sheet, which can house disk media provided with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag allowing information recorded on an IC chip to be read in a noncontact manner outside it.
  • RFID Radio Frequency Identification
  • a noncontact tag is preferably located in the vicinity of a hole in the center of the disk media.
  • a noncontact tag is preferably located in the vicinity of a hole in the center of the disk media.
  • a housing case for an information storage medium is known (refer to JP-A-2005-339663 (paragraphs [0024] to [0032] or see FIG. 1).
  • a noncontact tag or a coil-on-chip is applied to a storage media such as a cassette tape, a CD and a DVD, and this coil-on-chip is read with a substantially U-shaped read antenna provided on a partition plate of a housing shelf via a booster arranged in a substantially spiral shape.
  • this read system for a housing case there is one read antenna for each storing location.
  • the housing cases are separated by a partition plate provided with a read antenna. Therefore, it has been difficult to increase stack density of the housing cases for saving space.
  • the read antenna has to previously be connected to the read writer apparatus, which gives rise to a problem that wiring becomes complicated and the configuration is made inflexible.
  • any of the booster coil and the on-chip coil on the chip is complicated in its structure and manufacturing process due to their spiral shape and requirements of double-sided through-hole treatment.
  • the coils are read in the direction perpendicular to the coil. Therefore, in some location where the on-chip coil is provided, reading could not be allowed, which gives rise to a problem.
  • the read antenna is provided to each housing case, which gives rise to a problem that the housing cases have to be spaced apart when the cases are housed on the housing shelf.
  • the present invention has been attained in view of the above described problems and an object thereof is to provide a media case and a circuit pattern sheet with a simple configuration allowing highly dense collection and reliable recognition of housed disk media.
  • a media case of the present invention is a media case, which can house disk media provided with an RFID tag, including an upper plane and a bottom plane to be arranged substantially in parallel to this disk media and a circumferential plane being present between the upper plane and the bottom plane, comprising: an antenna element being formed across a predetermined length on the periphery plane or being formed across a predetermined length in contact with the circumferential plane on the upper plane or the bottom plane to exchange an electromagnetic signal with the outside; a waveguide line formed along the disk media from the antenna element, passing the vicinity of the center of the disk media, to guide high-frequency signals representing electromagnetic signals to the antenna element; and a resonance element being inserted in that waveguide line to guide the high-frequency signals or being formed adjacent to that waveguide line and electromagnetically induced by the high-frequency signal.
  • the present invention can provide a media case and a circuit pattern sheet in a simple configuration allowing highly dense collection and reliable recognition of disk media.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a media case of a first embodiment according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration example of a disk media managing system
  • FIG. 4A is a perspective view illustrating a media case of a maxi case type and FIG. 4B is an explanatory diagram illustrating a lid of this media case in the half-open state;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a media case of a second embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case of a third embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case of a fourth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case of a fifth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case of a sixth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case of a seventh embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 11 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case of an eighth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 12 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case of a ninth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 13 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case of a tenth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 14A is a perspective view illustrating a media case of an eleventh embodiment according to the present invention and FIG. 14B is a sectional view illustrating this media case;
  • FIGS. 15A and 15B are assembly diagrams illustrating a media case of an eleventh embodiment according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 17A is a perspective view illustrating a media case of a twelfth embodiment according to the present invention
  • FIG. 17B is a sectional diagram illustrating a first configuration example of this media case
  • FIG. 17C is a sectional diagram illustrating a second configuration example of this media case
  • This media case 1 is a container which houses disk media 50 in the inner space and is freely opened and closed and made of dielectric such as rigid plastic including styrene resin, acrylic resin and polycarbonate and paper.
  • a circuit pattern 55 a made of high-frequency good conductor film such as aluminum and copper is formed. That is, the circuit pattern 55 a made of electrically conductive film is formed on the base member of the disk media 50 made of dielectric and thereby a stripline waveguide is configured.
  • the circuit pattern 55 a has thickness capable of providing sufficient low resistance for high frequency signals and formed by etching and sputtering, for example, or by attaching metal foil.
  • the circuit pattern 55 a can be formed on resin film made of such as PET and PP and attached to the media case 1 .
  • the circuit pattern 55 a consists of an antenna element 51 a exchanging signals with the outside; a waveguide line 52 a extending from in the vicinity of the center in the longitudinal direction of the antenna element 51 a along the direction of the diameter of the disk media 50 ; and two resonance elements 53 a formed on the both sides of waveguide line 52 a adjacently in parallel in the vicinity of the center of the disk media 50 .
  • the antenna element 51 a is formed on a plane to become a headline (back plane; a plane corresponding to the back cover of a book) when the media cases 1 are collected in a stacked manner in the direction of thickness (that is, stacked so that the bottom plane of the media case 1 contacts with the upper plane of another media case each of which will be described below).
  • waveguide line refers to a portion arranged in an attempt to exchanging high-frequency signals (high-frequency currents) with exclusively for “antenna element” among “circuit patterns” under the low-loss condition.
  • an RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing) attached to the disk media 50 is adjacent to the waveguide line as described below, the RFID tag is read through this waveguide line.
  • the “waveguide line” is formed so that various characteristics as a line (such as characteristic impedance) become approximately constant across the transmission direction of high-frequency signals (high-frequency currents).
  • the electrically conductive material of the first resonance element is formed in a separate state and therefore the first resonance element can be distinguished easily.
  • the second resonance element includes a bent shape and a branched shape and therefore, property for high-frequency signals significantly varies across the bent shape or the branched shape.
  • the waveguide line has uniform property (characteristic impedance and the like) as apparent from its shape. Accordingly, tracing the waveguide line to find the bent part and the branched part, the portion being the waveguide line and the portion being the resonance element can be distinguished.
  • the boundary between the waveguide line and the resonance element can be obtained experimentally by irradiating the circuit pattern with electromagnetic waves to measure its operation with a measuring instrument (not illustrated in the drawing).
  • This RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing) is typically a tag antenna provided with an L-shaped slit in a dipole element made of metal film and in which a stub for impedance matching is formed.
  • a chip for an RFID including a sending/receiving function, a power extracting function, an arithmetic control function, a nonvolatile storage function and the like such as a mu-chip(registered trade name) is connected to this location (stub side and the opposite side of the stab over a slit) as a feed point (any thereof is not illustrated).
  • FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration example of a disk media managing system 100 ;
  • the RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing) is present in the vicinity of any portion of the circuit pattern 55 a, this RFID tag can be read from the outside read apparatus 60 .
  • the waveguide line 52 a goes in the vicinity of the center of the disk media 50 .
  • two resonance elements 53 a are formed so as to cover in the vicinity of this center and, therefore, through the antenna element 51 a, the RFID tag attached to the disk media 50 can be read with highly accurate cognizance.
  • FIG. 3B is an explanatory diagram illustrating the lid 72 a of this media case 1 a in the half-open state. This drawing illustrates the media case 1 a in the direction of the arrow A illustrated in FIG. 3A .
  • circuit pattern 55 a can be formed on the outer surface of the bottom 71 a or the lid 72 a, the inner surface of the lid 72 a and, otherwise, the front card (so-called a jacket (not illustrated in the drawing) to be inserted into the lid 72 a.
  • FIG. 4A is a perspective view illustrating a media case 1 b of a maxi case type.
  • This media case 1 b is a form of a P case and is called as a maxi case, which is thin and inexpensive, and is used, for example, for housing the thing with short recorded period (such as a maxi single, that is, 12 cm single) for distribution and for storage of music copyright products and otherwise used without specifying any particular purpose.
  • the media case 1 b is two-piece structure consisting of a bottom 71 b, and a lid 72 b corresponding to the lid of the bottom 71 b and opening and closing like a hinge.
  • the circuit pattern 55 a is formed normally in the position of the lid 72 b where a front card (not illustrated in the drawing) is sandwiched. In this case, across the lid 72 b, the circuit pattern 55 a can be formed. In addition, if the circuit pattern 55 a is formed on the rear side of the front card (not illustrated in the drawing), the circuit pattern 55 a is not remarkable from the outer side so as to prevent designs, letters and the like printed on the front card from being hidden. As described above, the circuit pattern 55 a can be formed on any face in the rear or in the front of the front card.
  • the face on the sides of the bottoms 71 a and 71 b of the media case 1 a and 1 b are bottom faces and the sides of the lid 72 a and 72 b are the upper faces.
  • the face on the side where the hinge mechanism causing the bottoms 71 a and 71 b and the lids 72 a and 72 b to open and close are present will be the back plane (headline plane).
  • the face being opposite from this face can be configured as the back plane.
  • the faces such as the back plane being present between the upper plane and the bottom plane are called as a circumferential plane.
  • the width of the formed pattern is 2 mm, for example, and the minimum distance between the patterns is 4 mm, for example, those dimensions can be changed by taking the kind of the housed media (that is, the size of the case) and the condition for reading the RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing) into consideration.
  • the antenna element 51 a is installed on the face to become the headline of the media case 1 in the present embodiment, which, however, will not set any limit.
  • the antenna element 51 a can be installed on the circumferential plane besides the plane to become the headline so that closing the media case 1 capable of being opened and closed is closed to bring antenna element 51 a and the waveguide line 52 a into connection.
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a media case 2 of a second embodiment according to the present invention.
  • the antenna element 51 a is adjacent to the back plane and, therefore, the effect approximately likewise the effect of the media case 1 of the first embodiment is obtained.
  • the antenna element 51 a, the waveguide line 52 a and the resonance element 53 a can be formed on the same flat plane and, therefore, can be formed more easily.
  • no designs, letters and the like printed on the back plane label (the bent part corresponds to the back plane of the rear card) of the media case 2 will be hidden.
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case 3 of a third embodiment according to the present invention.
  • two antenna elements 51 b configuring a dipole antenna being on its back plane or formed on its back plane with its ends being arranged in a small distance; two waveguide lines 52 b extending in parallel along the direction of diameter of the disk media 50 from the two adjacent parts of the antenna element 51 b to become a feed part of this dipole antenna and the four (two pairs of) resonance elements 53 b formed in the vicinity of the center of the disk media 50 in parallel in a determined distance to those two waveguide lines 52 b are formed.
  • the length of the waveguide line 52 b is at least such length reaching the location in the vicinity of the center of the disk media 50 and, more preferably, length through the location in the vicinity of the center and can be determined in consideration of the property of the antenna element 51 b and the resonance element 53 a.
  • electrical length of the pattern such as the antenna element 51 a and the resonance element 53 a is represented by the wavelength ⁇ of the electromagnetic waves to be exchanged. Physical length of these patterns is determined in consideration of the wavelength shortening ratio determined by material, for example, of the base members for forming the patterns.
  • the two antenna elements 51 b operate as a single wavelength dipole antenna so that the two waveguide lines 52 b operate as a coplanar waveguide line, enabling, therefore, reduction in attenuation of electromagnetic signals and extension of communication distance.
  • the four (two pairs of) resonance elements 53 a are formed, the range allowing read of the RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing) can be expanded.
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case 4 of a fourth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • This media case 4 is configured likewise the media case 3 (see FIG. 6 ) of the third embodiment besides four L-shaped resonance elements 53 b being symmetrically formed in the vicinity of the center of the disk media 50 instead of the resonance element 53 a (see FIG. 6 ). More in detail, one side of the resonance element 53 b is arranged in parallel to and in the vicinity of the other side of the resonance element 53 b formed in the direction where the waveguide line 52 b extends. The other side of this resonance element 53 b is in parallel to one side of another resonance element 53 b with two waveguide lines 52 b being present inbetween.
  • the range allowing read of the RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing) can be expanded and stable read can be carried out regardless of the direction of the antenna (not illustrated in the drawing) of the RFID tag.
  • FIG. 8 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case 5 of a fifth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • This media case 5 is configured likewise the media case 3 (see FIG. 6 ) of the third embodiment except that six (three pairs of) resonance elements 53 c are formed in perpendicular to the waveguide line 52 b (in parallel to the antenna element 51 b ) in a predetermined distance so as to cover a location in the vicinity of the center of the disk media 50 and so as to connect one end for three thereof to the waveguide line 52 b.
  • the range allowing read of the RFID tag can be expanded and stable read can be carried out regardless of the direction of the antenna (not illustrated in the drawing) of the RFID tag.
  • FIG. 9 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case 6 of a sixth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • This media case 6 is configured by adding two more (a pair of) resonance elements 53 a with the same length to the two (a pair of) resonance elements 53 a in the media case 2 of the second embodiment (see FIG. 5 ) to form four in total (two pairs of) of resonance elements 53 a being arranged mutually in parallel.
  • the range allowing read of the RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing) can be expanded.
  • FIG. 10 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case 7 of a seventh embodiment according to the present invention.
  • This media case 7 is configured by removing two (a pair of) resonance elements 53 a in the media case 2 (see FIG. 5 ) of the second embodiment to form a substantially circular resonance part 53 d going around the disk media 50 in the vicinity of its center midway the waveguide line 52 d wired in the vicinity of the center of the disk media 50 .
  • the diameter L 6 of the resonance part 53 d is made slightly larger than the center hole of the disk media 50 , for example, and is set to the size to cover the RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing) as much as possible.
  • this RFID tag can be read with highly accurate cognizance likewise the above described respective embodiments even if the RFID tag attached to the disk media 50 in the vicinity of its center hole is rotated to any position.
  • FIG. 11 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case 8 of an eighth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • a dipole antenna consisting of two antenna elements 51 b instead of the antenna element 51 a, two waveguide lines 52 c being connected thereto and extending in the direction of diameter of the disk media 50 and two resonance parts 53 e going around the disk media 50 in the vicinity of its center hole midway these two waveguide lines 52 c in a cooperative manner with the two (a pair of) parties and forming a substantially circular shape are formed in the media case 7 of the seventh embodiment (see FIG. 10 ).
  • the diameter L 6 of the resonance part 53 e can be determined as in the case of the seventh embodiment.
  • substantially circular resonance part 53 e since substantially circular resonance part 53 e is included, the RFID tag attached to the disk media 50 in the vicinity of its center hole can be read with highly accurate cognizance. Moreover, since a dipole antenna is formed with two antenna elements 51 b and a coplanar waveguide line is formed with two waveguide lines 52 c, loss of signals to be exchanged is made little so that communication performance can be improved.
  • FIG. 12 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case 9 of a ninth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • This media case 9 is a variation of the media case 7 of the seventh embodiment (see FIG. 10 ) and is configured by inserting a resonance part 53 f instead of the resonance part 53 d (see FIG. 10 ) formed in midway of the waveguide line 52 e corresponding to the waveguide line 52 d (see FIG. 10 ).
  • the resonance element 53 f is made of a series of line and is formed to shape a switchback so as to cover the disk media 50 in the vicinity of the center hole.
  • the dimension L 7 along the waveguide line 52 e of this resonance part 53 f is approximately the length to cover the location in the vicinity of the center hole of the disk media 50 .
  • this RFID tag can be read with highly accurate cognizance even if the RFID tag attached to the disk media 50 in the vicinity of its center hole is rotated to and housed in any position.
  • FIG. 13 is a perspective plan view illustrating a media case 10 of a tenth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • This media case 10 is a variation of the media case 8 of the eighth embodiment (see FIG. 11 ) and is configured by respectively inserting resonance parts 53 g instead of the resonance part 53 e (see FIG. 11 ) formed in midway of the waveguide line 52 f corresponding to the waveguide line 52 c (see FIG. 11 ).
  • One resonance element 53 g is made of a series of line and is formed to shape a switchback so as to cover the disk media 50 in the vicinity of the center hole with two resonance parts 53 g.
  • the dimension L 7 along the waveguide line 52 f of this resonance part 53 g can be determined as in the ninth embodiment.
  • FIG. 14A is a perspective view illustrating a media case 11 of an eleventh embodiment according to the present invention.
  • This media case 11 consists of a storage bag 74 (in general, called as a CD sleeve and the like and typically a deflective product) forming a bag state obtained by combining an extremely thin transparent sheet made of plastic and unwoven fabric such as acryl fabric for damaging no content, and a circuit pattern sheet 56 including a circuit pattern 55 formed on a sheet made of PET and PP.
  • a storage bag 74 in general, called as a CD sleeve and the like and typically a deflective product
  • a circuit pattern sheet 56 including a circuit pattern 55 formed on a sheet made of PET and PP.
  • FIG. 14B is a sectional view illustrating this media case 11 .
  • This media case 11 is configured to stack the circuit pattern sheet 56 together with the disk media 50 being the original storage subject in the storage slot of the storage bag 74 .
  • the circuit pattern sheet 56 can just be put in the storage bag 74 together with the disk media 50 or can be fixed to the storage bag 74 with adhesive material.
  • FIGS. 15A and 15B are assembly diagrams illustrating this media case 11 (see FIG. 14 ).
  • FIG. 16 is a perspective view illustrating a media case housing 76 in which a great number of media cases 11 are housed in a housing box 75 .
  • Thickness of the media case 11 of the present embodiment is obtained by adding thickness of the circuit pattern sheet 56 to the normal storage bag 74 .
  • the circuit pattern sheet 56 itself is extremely thinner than the disk media 50 to an ignorable extent and, therefore, can be treated likewise the normal storage bag 74 so that approximately the same number of sheet can be housed in the housing box 75 with the same dimension.
  • This media case 12 includes a circuit pattern 55 being formed directly in the storage bag 74 .
  • the circuit pattern 55 can be formed in any method such as sputtering and pasting metal foil.
  • FIG. 17B is a sectional diagram illustrating a first configuration example of the media case 12 .
  • This media case 12 includes the circuit pattern 55 formed on the exterior of the storage bag 74 .
  • This media case 12 includes the circuit pattern 55 formed on the interior of the storage bag 74 .
  • the circuit pattern 55 can be formed in any of the exterior or the interior of the storage bag 74 .
  • this media case 12 the thickness of the electrically conductive film of the circuit pattern 55 is practically ignorable. Therefore, this media case 12 in the same number of the normal storage bag 74 can be stored in the hosing 75 .
  • FIGS. 18A to FIG. 18C are assembly diagrams illustrating another production example for the media case 12 of the twelfth embodiment according to the present invention.
  • the circuit pattern sheet 56 illustrated in FIG. 18A is prepared and adhered to the storage bag 74 illustrated in FIG. 18B to manufacture the media case 12 illustrated in FIG. 18C .
  • Technology of the media case of the present invention is preferably applicable to a case for hosing the other items such as magnetic storage media including magnetic tape in addition to optical disks and magneto-optical disks.

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